Training tool for diagnostic skills and expert system for travel-related fever

Kabisa, a computer based tutorial for tropical and subtropical medicine, has been in development since 1992. The first version was built using foxpro, the second using C++, the third and fourth using MS Access XP, and the last using Delphi.

For developing countries it is a didactic tool that challenges the student with cases electronically assembled from a randomly generated disease and randomly chosen related presenting symptoms. The student should find the diagnosis with a set of disease characteristics, available in the context of a hospital in developing countries. The logical engine is based upon both pattern recognition and Bayesian logic. Moreover, Kabisa follows a threshold driven logic: you can only make the diagnosis if you reached the threshold, and if no strong excluders are available any more.

For a Western context, the program also offers a Bayesian diagnostic tool for imported fever, based on a prospectively generated database of over 2000 patients. It is innovative with the suggestion of new questions and tests based on the data already provided by the user.

How to install?

Windows users

First check if you have a 64 or (an older) 32 operating system. Create a new map on the desktop (or somewhere else, but not read-only), name it KABISA. Download the zip file and extract it in this map. Please, keep all files of KABISA always together in this map. Click on the exe file to start. For your convenience, you may create a shortcut on the desktop.

Mac users

Frequently asked questions

Windows users

While opening, your computer gives the following message: "cannot load vendor library [ibtogo64.dll]"
This means the zip has not been unpacked correctly in one single directory, or you tried to open KABISA directly from the zip file. Please restart unzipping if necessary.